Category: Mindhunter

Even though 2018 has proved to be a busy year full of quality crime drama – it really has been a decent year – 2019 could be even better. One of the series we’re keeping a close eye on is series two of Netflix’s Mindhunter (series one won our Best Crime Drama Of The Year…

Mindhunter won our Best Crime Drama of 2017 award last year, and details of the Netflix show’s second series have been gobbled up easily. If you haven’t seen it, it’s the slow-burn, creepy tale of a secret branch of the FBI tasked with researching a new kind of killer in the 1970s – the sequential,…

Netflix’s Mindhunter took the crime drama world by storm last year (it also won our Crime Drama Of The Year, which you can read here), thanks to its bold and subversive exploration of the serial killer and psychopathy. It boasted enviable teams in front of and behind the camera, which boasted playwright Joe Penhall and…

It’s my favourite time of the year. Not only is it Christmas but it’s a chance to look back through the year and sort out the wheat from the chaff. But it’s not just us. Oh no. Every year we ask a bunch of actual, bona fide, best-selling, award-winning crime authors what they’ve been watching…

Joe Penhall and David Fincher’s serial killer drama-with-a-difference has been one of the highlights of the crime drama year. Starring Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Hannah Gross, and newcomer Cameron Britton, and set in the 1970s within the FBI’s nascent serial killer investigative unit, it was a thoughtful, uncomfortably intimate and sneakily brave drama series….

Like most good shows, Mindhunter’s reputation has been spreading like wildfire since its release date the week before last thanks to good reviews (see our’s here) and social media word-of-mouth. The serial killer drama, that took a slightly different approach to crime-solving, has already been commissioned for a second series by streaming site, Netflix, and speculation…

NB: Spoilers inside You’d have thought that after the likes of Se7en and Zodiac that Hollywood director David Fincher would’ve exhausted all he needed to say about serial killers, but not so. Mindhunter, a 10-part series available on Netflix and based on the memoirs of ex-FBI agent John Douglas (called Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime…

Is it me or is American TV crime drama enjoying a renaissance this year? We’ve had Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks and the always fabulous Fargo, Ozark is getting rave reviews on Netflix, while Mr Mercedes, Stranger Things 2 and Sharp Objects will be coming soon. Netflix – again – has released a trailer for a…